(finally)
As per the remark in the NEWS file, there's some speculation about
what it would mean to be 0.9 instead of 0.8.very-large. Probably it'll
be resolved before too much longer. Meanwhile, enjoy bleeding edge
versionology while you still can!
from the NEWS file in the distribution:
changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
* fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
* fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
Lichteblau)
* fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
(thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
* fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
(see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
* fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
related to the ~@F format directive.
* fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
Hanche-Olsen)
* fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
* fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
Euler)
* fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
by Svein Ove Aas)
* optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
coerce function designators to functions.
* optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
* optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
* optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
fixnums no longer create extra rationals
* fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
start of the buffer at the next read.
** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
passing it through to OPEN.
** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
* fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
correctly.
** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
operations.
* fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
secondary constituent character trait.
** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
syntax.
** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
normal termination.
** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
works more reliably.
** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
RATIO imagpart.
** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
(IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
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